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HIVE & SEEK: 12,000 To 15,000 Bees Have House-Swarming Party In Downtown Ridgewood HIVE & SEEK: 12,000 To 15,000 Bees Have House-Swarming Party In Downtown Ridgewood
Hive & Seek: 12,000 To 15,000 Bees Have House-Swarming Party In Downtown Ridgewood Tens of thousands of honeybees had a hive-swarming party that temporarily closed a stretch of downtown Ridgewood on Monday. It wasn't immediately clear what brought the colony to the tree in front of the Starbucks on East Ridgewood Avenue. Perhaps there was a promise of more honey and shorter working flowers. Village police summoned Frank Mortimer, a local beekeeper who recommended that the colony be removed from their perch 30 feet up a tree. Tens of thousands of honeybees had a hive-swarming party that temporarily closed a stretch of downtown Ridgewood on Monday. Boyd A. Loving Fir…

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by Jerry DeMarco